Power Quotes
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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The less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
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Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.
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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.
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I just want to believe in a higher power. That's a good way to live.
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You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.
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Knowledge is potential; action is power.
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Harry Dresden: You can never tell how someone is going to handle power - not until you hand it to them and see what they do with it.
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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
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The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
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Even as the United States has risen to become the predominant international power, however, conflict has persisted over the nature of American society itself and what its role in the world should be.
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Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
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The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me.
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.
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You've never in your life seen a horse run like this! He's all power - all beauty.
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First, I worry about climate change. It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible.
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I am of the opinion that the main and final cause why the prince pretends to the power of altering the coinage is the profit or gain which he can get from it.
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The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.
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If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
